When speaking of world renowned furniture designers you must include Bruno Mathsson.  He is the creator of many furniture (möbler) designs and these designs have become staples in many home interior designs.  Bruno Mathsson has given us many beautiful furniture designs over the years and these design furniture have become very popular indeed.

When speaking about the man Bruno Mathsson one must mention that he grew up around wood and wood shops from the time he was a small boy.  As a young boy he had many of his chores that involved working in the family furniture and wood shops.  He had plenty of experience and comfort with all of the different tools and the wood working techniques that would later sculpt not only his design furniture but also the man himself.

Being a creative man he found ways to educate himself in different ways.  He would order books and learn from experts many questions and would find his answers in places that were not readily available to him where he lived.  He eventually acquired all of the skills he needed to help him create his first pieces of furniture earning him awards and recognition.  He later used these awards for his furniture to help pay for his formal education.

Bruno Mathsson is known widely for his many furniture designs.  He has created many computer desks, daybeds and plenty of different tables.  His most well known table is probably the Fällbord.  This table is known world wide as a elegant and yet functional piece of furniture. The Fällbord table is a table that was manufactured in the year 1935.  Originally it was made of birch wood legs and then the top was usually made with other woods such as beech, cherry, ash or oak.  The table was sometimes made with a white laminate surface instead.  This Fällbord was made to be converted to a much smaller item.  You can either use this table as a small table able to convert to a small 23 cm, or you can use the table to its largest form of 280cm in length. At its longest outstretched length the table can be used for large dinners and many family memories. The Fällbord could also be changed to any size in between these two extremes.  This table is extremely versatile in its design making it a wonderful piece of furniture.

Later on his furniture designing career, Bruno Mathsson started to use other materials besides wood to construct his creations.  He would use things like metal and other synthetic materials in his designs.  These furniture designs were quite impressive and very popular.  Although he had great success with these more modern of furniture designs, Bruno Mathsson will probably always be best known for his Fällbord that was created early on in his career.

As it is with such wonderfully gifted designers, you can still find Bruno Mathsson’s furniture designs all over the world and in many different interior design books.  These pieces of art work that were created by geniuses in the furniture world can still be found as basis for new designers works today.  Furniture designers today love to use his ideas and try to enhance them if they could possibly do so.  Many of his designs are still in use today.   Finding pieces of furniture today that are based on Bruno Mathsson’s designs is very easy.  When something is as good as his designs they do not fade away so very easily at all.